Alice is an extremely talented flute and piccolo player.—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024 Trumpets spread out around the auditorium; bass notes in the orchestra rose as if from profound depths; enticing melodies came out of nowhere, and piccolos and glockenspiels imagined a wondrous twinkling of night light on Disney’s steel, were the Music Center ever to properly light the building.—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023 Is that a piccolo peeking out from behind the library check-out desk?—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023 Music has always been a part of Kujala’s life, having first played the piccolo at age five with his father, former longtime Chicago Symphony piccolo player and Northwestern professor Walfrid Kujala.—Alex Hulvalchick, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022 Later, as Adonis sets off on the hunt, two flutes and a piccolo evoke his fatal insouciance, issuing birdlike high harmonics and an Aeolian whistling that is produced by blowing directly into the instrument.—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023 Advertisement The piece began with flutes, piccolo, and percussionists (playing an array of American Indian instruments) gently improvising over a drone in the low strings.—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2023 From there, a turn-by-turn procession unfolds that feels equal parts fantastic and funereal: A loose melodic tangle of oboe, violin, piccolo, cello and bassoon twists into an anxious coil.—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 5 May 2023 It is scored for a flutist who also plays alto flute and piccolo, a pianist doubling on celesta, and a percussionist playing glockenspiel, vibraphone, tubular bells, and marimba.—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023
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